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	Podcast:		Future Perfect
	Episode:		Gilded Rage
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:26:11
	Publish Date:		2019-05-22 04:00:00
	Description:		To put our new age of extreme inequality in perspective, we look back at Andrew Carnegie, who gave America a huge number of libraries so they’d forgive him for his brutal steel mills. We ask: Is the same thing happening in 2019? Richard White’s history of the Gilded Age, and a short review hitting the main points A 1911 book examining the conditions of Carnegie’s steel mills The staggering death rates at Carnegie’s mills Hamlin Garland’s visit to the Homestead Mill Carnegie’s “The Gospel of Wealth” How Carnegie got into funding libraries
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